cal and stanford women's basketball two top 10 programs a home-and-home series sunday in palo alto. after losing to stanford four straight time, bears coach lindsey gottlieb sees a different ending this time. >> trying to turn the team around, taking the team to the second around missing a turn at last year. >> reporter: second year coach lindsey gottlieb has the cal women's basketball team on a tear. >> contact! >> reporter: after a 12-2 start, the bears are ranked 7th in the country and are off to their best start since 2008. >> most important thing for me that i did want to do coming in here is say hey, now we want to take a program that's very, very good and become elite. be talked about amongst the nation's best programs. and i think we're on that path. >> reporter: gottlieb got her first coaching job right after she graduated from brown university at just 21 years old. after an assistant under joanne boyle she took over for her former boss last season. her second head coaching job and she is only 35 years old. >> i actually met joanne when i was in high school. a few years lat